I'm not against top Russian players going to NHL, I actually think players that never played in NHL are in disadvantage.
CHL on the other hand...
Are Kovalchuk and Datsyuk injured?
It would also have been interesting to see Khokhlov and Vasiliev.
Dats is on the IR. Kovalchuk is just being rested. He will probably be on the Channel One Cup roster.Are Kovalchuk and Datsyuk injured?
It would also have been interesting to see Khokhlov and Vasiliev.
And yet Russia-based players routinely outperform NHL-based Russians in international tournaments.
I think it is becoming more and more clear that unless you are elite, a la Kucherov, you should think about staying home unless you want to be jerked around in a foreign country. I understand that players are curious and want to experience America, but America is becoming a depressing and increasingly anti-Russian dump.
Can you imagine actually living in Nevada? The horror. The Shipachyovs should be overjoyed to leave.
Russians should just boycott NA-dominated World Cups. And I am completely serious.
It wouldn't do anything. Keep in mind that it's really the players and maybe some of the fans that are pushing for this, the league doesn't care.
And they especially don't care if European fans are unhappy.
What else have we?
Given the format World Cup is dead if Russia bows out. They destroy the Olympics, we should sabotage their Fake Cup. I am all for it.Russians should just boycott NA-dominated World Cups. And I am completely serious.
Given the format World Cup is dead if Russia bows out. They destroy the Olympics, we should sabotage their Fake Cup. I am all for it.
Shipachyov soon. Hopefully more Russian players take a cue from what happened to him and stay home.
If it wasn't about politics and national prestige there would be no McLaren report and no WADA slander campaign.It is always hard to boycott events that are universally popular with long histories, like the World Juniors. But the World Cup is such a bloody joke that it presents the perfect opportunity for Russians to flex their muscle.
The Russian hockey program needs to recoup the kinds of attitudes about the sport that were pervasive in the Soviet times: that the game was valuable for reasons of national pride and prestige first and foremost, and not solely profit.
There is no pride in showing up at these kinds of events and getting crushed on foreign ice.
Telegin-Andronov-Plotnikov line.
Oh Znarok...
Shipachev had so much fun in the NHL he even refused a trade Vegas had on the table to another team.
I hope he becomes a spokesman in convincing the new generation of Russians to spurn America for good.
He wasn't playing because he couldn't adjust and didn't want to put in the time.
GK Vasiliy Demchenko Ilya Samsonov Alexander Sharychenkov D Alexei Bereglazov Yevgeniy Kulik Mikhail Naumenkov Vladislav Provolnev Yegor Rykov Nikita Tryamkin Alexei Vasilevskiy Albert Yarullin Artyom Zub | FW Alexander Barabanov Anatoliy Golyshev Maxim Karpov Alexander Khokhlachev Yegor Korshkov Pavel Kraskovskiy Andrei Kuzmenko Roman Lyubimov Alexei Makeyev Sergei Shumakov Andrei Svetlakov Nikolai Prokhorkin Viktor Tikhonov Vladimir Tkachyov (1993 born) |
You are not the only one. At least Tkachyov scored in Znarok's face yesterday.I'm a bit confused why Tryamkin and Tkachyov are on team B, while Lyubushkin and Kablukov are on team A.
That graphic of Team A is hilarious, only Kishechkin and Lyubushkin are not from either CSKA or SKA.